Handedness and cortisol in tufted capuchin monkey infants

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-217

  Westergaard, G C ^a   Byrne, G ^b   Suomi, S J ^b  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Capuchin; Cortisol; Handedness; Hormones; Laterality; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MONKEY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CEBUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA;

EID: 0034033857     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200004)36:3<213::AID-DEV4>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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